Altona East Phoenix Soccer Club have announced a partnership with local business, The Eye Labs.
The Eye Lab is an eyecare and designer prescription provider who specialise in diagnosing and treating dry eyes with personalised care plans to relieve irritation, redness, and inflammation.
The Newport clinic who are now partnered with the football club is the only Eye Lab who offer myopia control, which aims to halt the development of near-sightedness.
The company wanted to partner with Altona East SC to help increase community understanding around: eye health, children’s eye health, some misconceptions regarding when to see an optometrist and what an optometrist does.
The Eye Lab Founder and Principal Optometrist, Vic El-Khoury stated the Newport branch will try and achieve eye care awareness through more social media engagement, workshops with the club and information sheets for players and parents.
“We find that partnering with local clubs is both a very fulfilling way to give back to the local community, increases general awareness of our clinic and improves community engagement around the importance of eye health,” he said to Soccerscene.
“The main benefit is to promote eye health.
“It will strengthen our connections to our patients and families that already visit us. We have since found out that some of our patients and friends already play for Altona East, which was something nice to see.”
Eye Coordination In Football
In any sports, and everyday life, eye coordination is paramount to the safety of the player and everyone around them.
The process of what a player sees, how they react, and their awareness of their surroundings.
Footballers can enhance their eye health with vision training and regular eye checks with companies like The Eye Lab.
Vision training also helps improve how the brain processed visual information, using tests like peripheral awareness, depth perception, eye tracking, focus and attention, and visual reaction speed.
Footballers can also use drills like trapping high balls, passing while under match-day-like pressure, and how to angle the ball when kicking can also help train eye coordination.
